There's Got to be Rhythm: Seek God

           Let’s cut to the chase here:

·         if you’re looking for rhythm in your life as a man, a husband, and/or a father,

·         if you’re really trying to be more Christ like,

·         if you’re serious about your spiritual life, and

·         if you are tired of that emptiness you feel,

then you can’t sit idly on your laurels waiting for it all to happen.  It won’t unless you do what needs to be done.  None of the above happens by osmosis, nor does it rub off on to you from other people.  Yep, big boy, you’re going to have to work at it yourself.

Men who have successfully become real men have done so by doing, on a regular basis, one thing—seeking God.  That is to say, they position themselves so that God will reveal Himself to them.  They regularly (as in daily) get into the Word, and they regularly (as in daily) pray.  We can believe in God all we want, but unless we develop a rock solid relationship with Him by actively seeking Him out, we will never reach our full potential as Godly men and Christ like followers.  It takes effort, time, and commitment on our part.  We need to constantly fight laziness and complacency if we are to be successful in our efforts to seek God.  We need to constantly train ourselves, and the only way to do that is to, well, do it—get into the Word daily and pray regularly.  There are no shortcuts.

It’s like a job.  Whatever your job is, it required time, training, effort, regularity, and commitment to learn it.  The more time you spent, the more training and effort you put into it, the more commitment you made to your efforts, the better you knew your job.

To seek God is to seek something bigger than ourselves.  Seeking God through the Word and prayer will help us to release the stranglehold we have on our own wills as we will begin to see that His will may not coincide with our will, and that it is His will that will lead us through this pathway of life towards a greater reward than we could ever imagine.

Bottom Line Thought:  Can you yield your will to God’s will by actively and regularly seeking His will for you?